Settler of township lots: Lot 8, Conc. 13, Minden (Stanhope area)
Location: Map point is the approximate location within this 100 acre lot running north from Crooked House Road through Hwy 118 west of Town Lot Road.
Land acquisition: 1929 from Edward Cameron. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Image 20).
Other land:
- Lots 8 & 9, Conc. 12, Minden - 1880 Patent from The Crown; 1914 to John Carew? 1917 to David Wesley Cox. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Minden (Images 17 & 19).
- Lot 7, Conc. 13, Minden - 1911 Patent from The Crown. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Minden (Image 210).
- Lot 8, Conc. 13, Minden - 1891 from Andrew Barnum. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Minden (Image 210).
Dates of residency:
- 1891 Birth of Son William Earl McKay in Hindon
- 1893 Minden Township Directory: G H McKay, Petersons Cors
- 1896 Birth of Daughter Jennie Irene McKay at Lot 7, Conc. 13, Minden
- 1903 Business Directory, Minden: G H McKay, Petersons Cor, Lot 9, Conc. 13, Minden
- 1911 Census of Canada: George McKay and Eldon Bull. At this date, the property was owned by George Fader. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Image 34).
- 1918 Stanhope Post Office List: Lot 11, Conc. 9. At this date, this property was owned by William Gartshore
- Geo McKay, Halls Lake
- Earl McKay, Halls Lake
- 1921 Census of Canada: Hindon Page 6, Family 49.
Interesting facts:
The first of the McKays to take up land near Minden was the father of George Henry McKay [George H McKay (1837-1907)] who formerly lived at Wyoming, Ont. That George McKay followed the driving trade [lumber industry] is indicated in an old account book which records his purchase of a pair of driving boots and caulks in June of 1894. His son, Earl, by a first marriage to Minnie Gartshore, was to become one of the most outstanding white water men ever to drive the Gull River. Source: In Quest of Yesterday by Nila Reynolds. Published by The Provisional County of Haliburton, Minden, Ontario 1973 pg.287
On his death registration, he is described as a former farmer and mail carrier.
First landowner: 1866 William Wright
Succeeding landowner: 1929 H A Nesbitt
Link to Settlers of Algonquin Highlands family tree
- George Henry MacKay, b. 23 Feb 1865, Wyoming, Lambton, Ontario d. 18 Feb 1940 Anson. COD: Colon cancer. Buried: Twelve Mile Lake Cemetery?
Parents:
• George H Mackay b. 15 Jun 1837, Lanark, Ontario d. 12 Jan 1907, Haliburton. Buried: Twelve Mile Lake Cemetery
• Mary Ann Taylor McKay b. 1 Mar 1839, Lanark, Ontario d. 7 Jun 1905. Buried: Twelve Mile Lake Cemetery
- Family 1: Minnie E Gartshore b. 1869, Trenton, Ontario d. 17 Dec 1900, Haliburton. Buried Twelve Mile Lake Cemetery

1. Earle William McKay 1891- Hindon
2. Jennie Irene McKay 1896-1976
- Family 2: Rubina Beatrice Thomas, b. 08 May 1903, Haliburton d. 1972
Parents:
• Alfred Thomas, b. 10 Jun 1863, England d. 1929, Tisdale, Saskatchewan, (Age 65 years)
• Margaret Ferguson, b. 26 Oct 1875, Stanhope, d. 12 May 1912, Minden, Age 36 years)
1. Ethel Bernice MacKay 1925-1967. Buried: Twelve Mile Lake Cemetery
2. George McKay
3. Private
Minnie E Gartshore McKay Tombstone Inscription: IN MEMORY OF MINNIE GARTSHORE, WIFE OF GEORGE McKAY, DIED DEC. 18,1900 AGED 30 YEARS. Buried with parents Robert J Gartshore (1840-1910) and Eliza Jane Rogers Gartshore (1844-1886) and siblings Charles Francis Gartshore (1877-1957) and Milton Gartshore (1886-1919). No record of husband George McKay being buried here.
Image: Canadian Post (Lindsay, ONT), 16 Dec 1898 Blairhampton News
